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Climate Change

Climate change seems to be finally on the world’s radar as world leaders met in Paris to tackle the issue. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., Republicans – like Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and the House GOP – keep turning back the clock on progress.

We’ve all heard about climate change, but does it have to threaten the future of coffee for us to wake up? AJ+’s Dena Takruri went to Four Barrel Coffee in San Francisco to hear about the forecast for the world’s favorite stimulant.

While chocoholics are feasting, could a climate change-induced famine be around the corner? AJ+ takes you to a chocolate factory where they roast, crack, sort, winnow, grind and melt cocoa beans into chocolate bars. Dena Takruri asked Dandelion Chocolate’s lead “sourcerer” what the bitter forecast is for the future of chocolate.

Are Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway’s plans to save the human race the way to go? “Interstellar” says humans must leave the Earth in order to survive. But are we better off staying here and saving what we’ve got?

In order to feed an expected population of 9 billion by 2050, we’ll have to produce 60% more food over 35 years. But climate change is making that nearly impossible. What do we have to change to feed the world? Start eating bugs?

AJ+ animates the devastating effects on how climate change is already affecting every continent and every ocean on the planet, based on the most definitive report compiled by the United Nations. Hundreds of leading scientists from all over the world worked over 5 years researching the impacts and the challenges ahead for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.